How can the arts be a tool for investigation? How can research methods be instruments for creative enquiry? Can creative practice be research?
This unit is a deep dive into research for creatives. Providing students with the tools and methods that drive discovery and push creative practice forward.
Let yourself loose on the area that you love and use your research to develop, refine and share your creative contributions to knowledge.
This unit prepares students for further studies at postgraduate level, offering:
. An introduction to qualitative and practice-based research methods most suited to the creative arts and humanities.
. Key examples of innovative research in creative fields.
. An understanding of diverse creative research outputs, including non-traditional research outputs (NTROs) in the form of artworks alongside journal articles and other publications.
Students will develop a research proposal in a topic that interests them and undertake independent research to produce an appropriate research output within the timeframe. Students will plan and present their research at a student Arts symposium, where they can share their research outcomes with their peers and the wider arts and academic community. Students will be supported to submit their research to journals or for presentation externally. This unit prepares students for further studies at postgraduate level.
Note: students are encouraged to participate in scheduled classes (either online or in person) and students must present their research findings at scheduled sessions (whether online or in person at the Casuarina campus) at the end of the semester.
